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Gyula Csapó's name isn't widely known in the American new music scene, but the effusive accolades by John Cage, György Kurtág, and Morton Feldman cited in the program booklet make it clear that it ought to be. Csapó was born in 1955 in Hungary, studied with Feldman, and has since taught at McGill, Princeton, and the University of Saskatchewan. The ...
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Gyula Csapó's name isn't widely known in the American new music scene, but the effusive accolades by John Cage, György Kurtág, and Morton Feldman cited in the program booklet make it clear that it ought to be. Csapó was born in 1955 in Hungary, studied with Feldman, and has since taught at McGill, Princeton, and the University of Saskatchewan. The music on this CD shows a clear aesthetic connection to the three masters who admire his work so much, and it's possible to trace their varied influences in his music, which has an individuality that would keep it from being mistaken for the work of any of those composers. The pieces recorded here are notable for the spareness of their textures, their lack of linear development, and the ambiguity of the relationship of any given moment to piece as a whole. Krapp's Last Tape -- after Samuel Beckett replaces Beckett's actor with a violinist who records segments of his playing and performs a duet with the playback. The most striking piece on the CD is...
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